Reports a study to determine effects of indirect teaching and direct teaching on science achievement, critical thinking, interest in science, listening comprehension and understanding science. Involved were 24 ninth grade physical science classes. Seven conclusions are listed. (BR)

Describes the Montessorian basic music program for young children, a system that teaches children to listen, play instruments, sing, and move rhythmically. (BJD)

Nursery school children and kindergarteners served as listeners in five types of communicative conditions: adequate, message-dependent inadequate, situation-dependent inadequate, listener-dependent inadequate, and speaker-dependent inadequate. Results indicate that young children's appraisal skills as listeners in referential communications…

Suggestions are made for structuring taped listening exercises to promote careful attention to various elements of spontaneous speech (speaker, speaker characteristics, tone, etc.), and to sensitize students to the usage of "hein" or other specific expressions. (MSE)

Suggests an approach to take listening skills beyond mechanical exercises and to become part of an integrated approach to language development, developing both lower level and higher level listening and thinking skills. (AEA)

Reports data that indicate there is an optimal rate of reading and listening to prose and that support interrelationships among accuracy, rate, and efficiency of comprehension. (AEA)

Describes development of testing program to evaluate listening comprehension in second language classes. Suggests it is necessary to incorporate the aural component into classroom activities to a greater degree. Time and effort must be spent in developing the ability to understand and process the spoken word. (Author/BK)

Presents three possible exercises for increasing auditory understanding with the use of the textbook "Englisch fuer Sie": (1) doing various types of assignments in small groups, (2) using "pre-listening" questions, and (3) a learning game for detecting changes from the given text. (IFS/WGA)

The author discusses the importance of the study of the contour of form and of a review of how music elements affect contour when studying jazz composition. When this has been mastered, students can begin the study of style. (Author/KC)

Describes how persons working in health care settings can learn basic counseling and empathic listening skills through a special course/workshop. The rationale for introducing such counseling to medical professionals and an outline of an instructional model are included. (Author)

Exercises are presented as supplementary material for beginning classes. Many examples illustrate ways to consolidate the learned material, with particular reference to the textbook "Ich lerne Deutsch" and its pictures. Other exercises are designed to compare German and Farsi sentence structure. (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the positive effects of storytelling in the classroom and techniques for teaching children the art of storytelling. (HTH)